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MY NAME's spring2016 Opus

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Systems Programming Journal

April 29, 2016

As a class we have worked on displaying a pahkmahn board in full color! Using appropriate characters for each item in the game for example we used @ for the power pellet and used . for the regular pellets and a W for the ghosts the walls are hopefully going to be solid lines using the ACS_BLOCK and pahkmahn is an O. The attributes such as color for the symbols should correspond to the actual color as close as we can get it to the actual Pacman game. The board is going to be a 2 dimensional array for rows and columns that we are going to fill accordingly for walls pellets ghosts and pahkmahn himself!

April 20, 2016

As a class we wrote a program we are calling Gchat for ghetto chat because of how grossly rigged up it is. This program is the first step towards our goal of making a shared memory pack man game! We each have our own assigned number that we loop through an make a file and write to it which is then written into the shared memory file and printed out. It is still very gross and needs a bit of tweaking.

MARCH 24, 2016

Yet again for no reason other than I have trouble posting things I have learned because I never know what exactly to say. So here I go, I have done quite a bit this semester! I have explored multiple different Linux operating systems and currently configuring my very own home server! I have Learned about about threading, forking and general concurrency. Concurrency is when your program is broken into sub units that all work together to get a single job done. Threads and forks are similar yet different because with forks we had to have each fork write its values into a text file then read each one back in the correct order. Threads still elude me but I have had some ideas that I have been unable to complete that I believe when implemented correctly they will work and pretty efficient as well! Prime numbers are cool, I really enjoy creating an efficient program and comparing them to friends, healthy competition is great for progress in my opinion.

October 01, 2015

Yesterday, all my problems seemed so far away… Yesterday I was able to finish displayf and insert in sll0. these two functions blew my mind, I worked from 2 oclock till 6:15 and eventually figured out that I had the basic concept for displayf but it was in the wrong order. I have been commenting my code a lot more than I use too and I learned vi much better and by that I mean I'm actually using it because I can get it to work. Indent is great! did not know about that command either.

October 08, 2015

Last night I was able to figure out compare.c. I had a lot of problems trying to figure out but eventually figured it out. I turned the project in late in order to complete the entire thing and I'm hoping that, that does not hurt me bad because it was only an hour after the due date, however if it does then it does. I worked out logic so the most important will trump the others just by using if statements.

November 02, 2015

The past few weeks have been brutal with all my classes, tests, projects and the concept of doubly linked lists is blowing my mind and I'm having some difficulty understanding what I need to do for a lot of these projects. I started off doing really well and able to easily figure everything out, now I feel like something is missing because it seems that everyone else in class is knowing what to do and I just don't.

December 02, 2015

The break was able to get me caught back up and I feel much more confident with the content we have covered in the past few days. I have been getting much better with the use of error codes and the who, what, where, why with them. the Last 2 data structures we covered being Queues and Stacks were easy to comprehend however making them actually work was slightly more difficult. I'm kind of beat from this entire semester however I'm excited for this final project because regardless if I do well or not I've always been enjoying the stuff I learn from these projects!

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